incendiary statements about president obama. mother jones posted video of rafael cruz speaking to a tea party group saying this about the president. >> we have to unmask this man. this is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of god, and i'll tell you why. this is classical marxist philosophy. karl marx very clearly said marxism require that say we destroy god because government must become god. we have our work cut out for us. we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i'd like to send him back to kenya. >> joining me now, democratic strategist, daniellela gibbs leger. is this just a series of horrible comments by one man or do you think this is part of something bigger in our country these days? >> i think it's both, unfortunately. you hear a lot of these sentiments echoed by a lot of the fringe members of the republican party and the tea party. so it's not surprising that you heard these words coming out of his mouth. what is surprising is that, you know, yes, he is ted cruz's father, he's not in the senate himself. but